Does anyone have any tips on social phone etiquette? For example when you are called by?

Question

For example, when someone calls you should you be the one to end the phone conversation or should you let them?

Answer 1

The one who has something else that needs to be done ends the call. This is true even if it is a pretext to end boring conversation. "I'm sorry I must water my plants, may I call you later?" or if you are the caller "Well, It was great talking to you, but the plants are very thirsty. Perhaps I can call you again sometime."

Answer 2

Proper etiquette gives the responsibility for ending a telephone conversation to the caller. However, if the caller doesn't seem to know when to quit, feel free to do so yourself! Time is a commodity these days, and we all have more to do than wait for someone to end a conversation just for the sake of proper etiquette.

Answer 3

If the person who has called you has stated the purpose of their calling, you can discontinue the call at anytime, just be sure to say goodbye.

The person who places the call should wait until the person they called has hung up.

If this is a lonely person who is looking for ways to fill their days, I suggest setting a kitchen timer for the amount of time you feel you can invest in the conversation. That way when the timer goes off, you can excuse yourself politely by saying, "The oven timer just went off, I'll have to let you go..."

Solicitations, while as a matter of human decency you should be as polite as possible however, since you did not invite them to call you, you can be curt and firm.

Answer 4

you could continually keep away from taking a decision if it comes at an inconvenient time. purely say, 'Oh hi, sorry, am i able to call you back in 5 minutes'. it really is so straight forward as that. yet in spite of everything, seeing you've been speaking on your telephone in a crowd of folk, this is demanding to blame someone for listening. If it became so inner most, why did not you wait? And if it wasn't inner most, what's your problem? the guy did not like you being on the phone even as you've been paying for lunch, and that i accept as true with him. Your interest might want to were centred on what you've been doing, and who you've been dealing with - the server, the cashier, whoever.

Answer 5

I would say if you need to get off the phone, just politely tell them, I am getting an important call, maybe we could continue this conversation later.

Answer 6

I usually let the caller end the call. However if he is going on and on and on, I will say someone's at the door, I have to go.

Answer 7

Way back in the 3rd grade, I was taught that the caller should be the one to end the call.

However, when it's a telemarketer, I end the call.

Answer 8

It does not matter. People end conversations for many reasons. Either someone has to go or the topic has been exhausted or issue solved.

Answer 9

I believe you should be the one to end the conversation, because
the caller do not know what you were doing before they called you.

Answer 10

It really depends on the purpose of the call and what else you have to do. The overriding rule is to thank the caller so they know you value their call!